Resources

Links and resources on leadership, personal development, entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship, curated by Gregg Vanourek (@gvanourek)

• Alignment: How to Align Your Organization for Peak Performance. Alignment is essential to creating and sustaining the conditions for peak performance.
• Alignment Scorecard. With this Alignment Scorecard, you can assess your organization’s level of alignment and make plans for improving it. 

Alignment Scorecard

When organizations aren’t aligned, it can reduce performance dramatically and cause frustration and dysfunction. With this Alignment Scorecard, you can assess your organization’s level of alignment and make plans for improving it.

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• A-to-Z Guide to Good Leadership Practices. Everything you want to know about good leadership, all in one place, with links to relevant articles.
• Book Club Discussion Guide for Triple Crown Leadership. Helpful for team-building, leadership development, and team alignment.
• Company Culture Resources. Examples from top organizations with culture codes, culture-building best practices, and related videos.
• Entrepreneurship Resources. Links to web sites, blogs, apps, and more re. startups and social enterprises, including info on ideation, business modeling, lean startups, financing, etc.
• Happiness Series. Best articles on happiness by Gregg Vanourek. 
• Interviewing for Heart. Most people focus their interview questions on “head” matters like knowledge, skills, and experience. Triple crown leaders also probe for “heart” matters like character, emotional intelligence, and culture. Here are tips on how.
• Leadership Bookshelf. Recommended books on leadership as well as personal development, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and ethics.
• Leadership Derailers Assessment. Identify what’s inhibiting your leadership effectiveness–and what to do about it.

Leadership Derailers Assessment

Take this assessment to identify what’s inhibiting your leadership effectiveness. It will help you develop self-awareness and identify ways to improve your leadership.

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• Leadership Derailers Manifesto. A manifesto on the most common leadership derailers that inhibit leadership effectiveness–and what to do about them.
• Personal Development Resources. Curated list of the best books, web sites, and podcasts related to personal development, personal growth, self leadership, and life design.
• Personal Values Exercise. Identify your personal values: what you believe and stand for, and your convictions about what is most important in life.

Personal Values Exercise

Complete this exercise to identify your personal values. It will help you develop self-awareness, including clarity about what’s most important to you in life and work, and serve as a safe harbor for you to return to when things are tough.

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• Quality of Life Assessment. Discover your strongest areas and the areas that need work.

Quality of Life Assessment

Evaluate your quality of life in ten key areas by engaging with our assessment. Find your strongest areas, and the areas that need work, then plan accordingly!

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• Servant Leadership Series. The best articles on servant leadership by Bob and Gregg Vanourek.
• Social Entrepreneurship Resources. List of the best books, organizations, and funders related to social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.
• Sweden Startups and Social Enterprise Resources. Web sites & resources on startups and social enterprises in Sweden and the Nordics, including startups, incubators, funders, etc.
• Traps of Living Manifesto. A manifesto from Gregg Vanourek on the common traps of living–and how to avoid them.
• Traps Test (Common Traps of Living). Determine what’s getting in the way of your happiness, quality of life, and fulfillment.

Take the Traps Test

We all fall into traps in life. Often we’re not even aware of them. Check out these common traps of living to see what’s inhibiting your quality of life and fulfillment.

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